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but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

The outlook was cheerless indeed, but much work had to be done and we could not yield to the desire to remain in the sleeping-bags.

The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

To sleep is to strain and purify our emotions, to deposit the mud of life, to calm the fever of the soul

Fatigue yourself, but once, to utter exhaustion, and to the end of life you shall not recover the former vigour of your frame.

Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain bitter point, and the heart loses its life for ever.

The result was that I gradually, but completely, emerged from my habitual depression, and was never again subject to it.

The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.

Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

One can only say 'God help us!' and plod on our weary way, cold and very miserable, though outwardly cheerful.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.

The mere drudgery undergone by some men in carrying on their undertakings has been something extraordinary, but the drudgery they regarded as the price of success.

The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.

Oh! the delights of rest when a man comes to be weary, and of meat when he is heartily hungry.